Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug

[Julian Field]

Alex Broens wrote:
> On 9/18/2008 10:25 AM, Jason Ede wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of ram
>>> Sent: 09 September 2008 15:00
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: Is MailScanner affected by the Redhat bug
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:01 +0100, Greg Matthews wrote:
>>>> ram wrote:
>>>>> I have all my servers running MailScanner on Centos. Is MailScanner
>>>>> greatly affected by the Bug ?
>>>>> Should I upgrade perl on my machines  ?
>>>> I've ran tests last week on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5. CentOS 4.6 is
>>>> unaffected but CentOS 5.2 does contain the bug. However, it is not
>>> clear
>>>> that this performance issue unduly affects MailScanner as other
>>>> latencies are likely to dominate.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did some testing myself .. There is apparently absolutely no affect
>>> on
>>> MailScanner
>>>
>>> took ~1000 mails to a test machine , Centos 5 , 4GB Ram ,
>>> with the perlbug and run it under MailScanner ( MailScanner + SA +
>>> customscanner + f-prot6 + clamavmodule )
>>>
>>> It takes 18 minutes with the perl bug and it same time (infact took 15s
>>> more)  after I upgraded perl with the patch on http://people.centos.org
>>>
>>>
>>> So That is not any major affect after all :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ram
>>
>> CentOS have released the patch for this. Installed this morning and 
>> confirmed it fixes the bless issue.
>
> could become a dependency party...
> my Centos 5 testbox complained about version conflicts concerning
>
>  perl-Math-BigInt
>  perl-IO
>  perl-bignum
Delete these RPMs, upgrade Perl, then just re-run the MailScanner 
installer and it will put back the bits it needs. This is pretty quick 
and harmless.

Jules

-- 
Julian Field MEng CITP CEng
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store

Need help customising MailScanner?
Contact me!
Need help fixing or optimising your systems?
Contact me!
Need help getting you started solving new requirements from your boss?
Contact me!

PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654


-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.